Ubuntu 4.10 : postgresql contributed script vulnerability (USN-6-1)

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in the postgresql-contrib package. The script 'makeoidjoinscheck' created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the script. Note...

Ubuntu 5.04 : graphviz vulnerability (USN-208-1)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the 'dotty' tool created and used temporary files in an insecure way. A local attacker could exploit this with a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running dotty. Note that Tenable Network Security h...

Ubuntu 4.10 : openssl script vulnerability (USN-24-1)

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in the openssl package. The auxiliary script 'derchop' created temporary files in an insecure way, which could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Note that...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : cfengine vulnerabilities (USN-198-1)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that several tools in the cfengine package vicf, cfmailfilter, and cfcron create and use temporary files in an insecure way. A local attacker could exploit this with a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user...

Ubuntu 4.10 : debmake vulnerability (USN-49-1)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena noticed that the debstd script from debmake, a deprecated helper package for Debian packaging, created temporary directories in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the...

Ubuntu 4.10 : gettext vulnerabilities (USN-5-1)

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the gettext package. The programs 'autopoint' and 'gettextize' created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

Ubuntu 4.10 : Standard C library script vulnerabilities (USN-4-1)

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the libc6 package. The utilities 'catchsegv' and 'glibcbug' created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Not...

Code injection

The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...

CVE-2006-0055

The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...

CVE-2006-0055

The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...

CVE-2006-0055

The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...

CVE-2006-0055

The CVE-2006-0055 issue affects the ee editor on FreeBSD 4.10–6.0, where the ispell_op function generates predictable temporary file names and does not verify which file is written. This race condition allows a local user to perform a symlink attack and potentially overwrite arbitrary files durin...

ee -- temporary file privilege escalation

Problem description The ispellop function used by ee1 while executing spell check operations employs an insecure method of temporary file generation. This method produces predictable file names based on the process ID and fails to confirm which path will be over written with the user. It should b...

texindex -- temporary file privilege escalation

Problem description The "sortoffline" function used by texindex1 employs the "maketempname" function, which produces predictable file names and fails to validate that the paths do not exist. Impact These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they allow an attacker to take...

FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Texindex temporary file privilege escalation Category: contrib Module: texinfo Announced: 2006-01-11...

FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: ee temporary file privilege escalation Category: core Module: ee Announced: 2006-01-11 Credits: Christian...

CVE-2005-3126

The 1 kantiword kantiword.sh and 2 gantiword gantiword.sh scripts in antiword 0.35 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary a output and b error files...

CVE-2005-4536

Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the PID-audit.log temporary file...

CVE-2005-4802

Flexbackup 1.2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files and execute code via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: the raw source referenced an incorrect candidate number; this is the correct number to use...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3126

The 1 kantiword kantiword.sh and 2 gantiword gantiword.sh scripts in antiword 0.35 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary a output and b error files...